Leopard Install Notes
So, here are a couple of notes on Leopard install, based on my experience:
- First and foremost, back everything up
- Do an Archive and Install, not an upgrade. The upgrade corrupted my disk. Luckily I had a backup and was eventually able to get the old drive mounted in read-only mode to copy stuff off of it.
- In light of 2, create your users on a separate partition (or even a separate disk). This can now be done in System Prefs->Accounts by right clicking on the user and choosing Advanced Options. This isn’t exactly documented, but I did find tips on the Apple support discussion forums.
- Wait for 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 if you are faint of heart. I wish I would have been
All in all, though, I am pretty happy with the new features of Leopard.